Enlarge / A composite of three DALL-E 3 AI art generations: an oil painting of Hercules fighting a shark, a photo of the queen of the universe, and a marketing photo of “Marshmallow Menace” cereal. DALL-E 3 / Benj Edwards reader comments 133 with In October, OpenAI launched its newest AI image generator—DALL-E 3—into wide… Read More »
Enlarge / A photo of the Microsoft Azure Maia 100 chip that has been altered with splashes of color by the author to look as if AI itself were bursting forth from its silicon substrate. Microsoft | Benj Edwards reader comments 20 with On Wednesday at the Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft announced two custom chips… Read More »
Enlarge / The Microsoft Copilot logo. reader comments 75 with On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that Bing Chat—its famously once-unhinged AI chatbot—has been officially renamed “Microsoft Copilot.” The company also announced it will support OpenAI’s recently released GPTs, which are custom roles for its ChatGPT AI assistant. The rebranding move consolidates Bing Chat into Microsoft’s somewhat… Read More »
reader comments 27 with On Monday at the OpenAI DevDay event, company CEO Sam Altman announced a major update to its GPT-4 language model called GPT-4 Turbo, which can process a much larger amount of text than GPT-4 and features a knowledge cutoff of April 2023. He also introduced APIs for DALL-E 3, GPT-4 Vision,… Read More »
Microsoft is partnering with Inward AI to create AI game development tools. The use of artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry is controversial. However, Microsoft presents it as simply a new tool for game developers. Microsoft Partners with Inward AI According to Microsoft, the company partnered with Inward AI to create an AI toolset for… Read More »
Enlarge / UK Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan (front row center) is joined by international counterparts for a group photo at the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, on November 1, 2023. reader comments 101 with On Wednesday, the UK hosted an AI Safety Summit attended by 28 countries, including the US… Read More »
reader comments 40 with On Tuesday, The Guardian accused Microsoft of damaging its journalistic reputation by publishing an AI-generated poll beside one of its articles on the Microsoft Start website. The poll, created by an AI model on Microsoft’s news platform, speculated on the cause of a woman’s death, reportedly triggering reader anger and leading… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 81 with It was a proto-netbook, it was a palmtop, it was a PDA, it was Windows Phone 7 but not Windows Phone 8, and then it was an embedded ghost. It parents never seemed to know what to do with it after it grew up, beyond offer… Read More »
Enlarge / This is not what a hacker looks like. Except on hacker cosplay night. reader comments 4 with Microsoft has been tracking a threat group that stands out for its ability to cash in from data theft hacks that use broad social engineering attacks, painstaking research, and occasional physical threats. Unlike many ransomware attack… Read More »
Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s successful completion of its Activision acquisition, Ubisoft has released a Q&A covering how the company plans to use its streaming rights for Activision Blizzard games moving forward. Ubisoft gained the game streaming rights to the Activision Blizzard catalog as part of agreements made by Microsoft to gain the European… Read More »